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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Interesting post and some good points. With the amount of fraud, piracy and illegal content being put out this statement is clearly wrong.
As you clearly point out here. If it were properly regulated people would not be able to send out or profit from sending out Spam and pirating.
The Government in the US never closed down porn in the US. They have the biggest porn magazines, DVDs and cable publishers of porn. The US is the biggest porn industry in the world. So why do you think they would ban it from the Internet?
Very good point and an individual countries and standards should always take precedent over any International agreement or rules. Yes it would be hard to do, does that make it something we should not attempt?
Banning and even deleting domains of people who break the rules or laws is an option.
Are you saying you should be allowed to pirate so long as it's on the Internet? I'm confused.
If GFY risked losing it's domain because you posted illegal stolen property they would not allow you to post it. Yes if you pirate content on someone elses site both you and the site should be liable to some penalty. Again are you saying piracy should be allowed?
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The internet is self-regulating. For the most part, you don't have to see crap if you don't want to. You don't have to see porn if you don't want to. Gmail's' SPAM filter is 99.9% effective. And Google almost always figures out exactly what you are searching for.
The government does not like porn. We have the biggest porn industry, but Brazil is a close second. Many US Attorneys put obscentity prosecutions at a higher priority than other more serious crimes. Infact, two US Attorneys were dismissed because they did not prosecute enough obscenity prosecutions. The US government cannot get rid of porn overnight, but they can gradually restrict what they consider acceptable until everybody is fully clothed. You saw what happened with Janet Jackson's nipple. And I know that it was daytime television, but everybody's seen a nipple. A man's nipple and a women's nipple look alike. You've seen your own nipples and they don't look much different from the one that was on television. But when some Christian's started to complain, the FTC had to fine them. And as somebody pointed out, many communities do not allow adult video stores.
Lets be clear about one thing. The people who will make regulations for the internet don't use the internet very much. They aren't going to be regulating their use. They'll be regulating OUR use.
I never said that we should be allowed to infringe on others' intellectual property rights. But deleting domain names for copyright infringement is unacceptable and will only result in abuse. Domain names should not be taken down without Court intervention, not with somebody writing a false complaint to a registrar and getting a site shut down 5 minutes later. The DMCA take-down process has already demonstrated that.
GFY already doesn't let me post stolen content. But there is nothing that STOPS me from posting stolen content. I can post stolen content right now if I wanted to. I can post links to stolen content. Under your system, that would be enough to get the GFY domain name taken away. Google is full of links to stolen content.
Copyright holders want to change the internet so that we can't post anything without their approval. Every single web page that is created or updated would not be live until subjected to review, and that is not an acceptable route.